EPISODE 14: Mondays, Pedro, and Silence

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

Conversation, Strangers, Park, Society & Culture, Random, Bench, Documentary

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.

This is what happened!

Produced by Tom Rosenthal

Edited by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song by 'What About Me?' by Rae Morris

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:05.0	Can I ask you a slightly odd question?
0:09.0	I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench
0:14.0	where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes.
0:19.0	Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? What's your favourite day of the week?
0:46.3	Hmm.
0:50.3	I lately like Mondays because I made a decision not to work Mondays anymore.
0:57.0	Everyone is in a rush on Monday to get to places but I'm not.
1:02.0	I normally come here and do like Lisa picking with my dog
1:07.0	and it's just so nice then I don't have to be a part of that rush
1:12.5	that one day
1:14.5	and I like it.
1:16.9	What made you decide to stop?
1:20.1	Was there a moment when he thought
1:21.2	that's the end of Mondays for me
1:23.1	as I knew them?
1:25.6	I think I got to the point
1:27.4	like I've got a child that struggles with emotional as I knew them. I think I got to the point,
1:30.6	like I've got a child that struggles with emotional and mental wellbeing
1:33.0	and I thought, you know what?
1:36.5	It's just not worth for me
1:39.3	to be pushing myself and working
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